Rev Dr Harold Good - minister Methodist Church

George Harold Good

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(born 1937 in

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) is an Irish

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who, in 2005, played a vital role in the

Northern Ireland peace process The Northern Ireland peace process includes the events leading up to the 1994 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ceasefire, the end of most of the violence of the Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and subsequent political develop ...

. In October 2024 the Dublin publisher Red Stripe Press published Good's memoir, "In Good Time", A Memoir with Martin O'Brien. He trained as a hospital chaplain at

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in 1967–68. He served as a minister in Shankhill, Belfast and also at the City's Crumlin Road prison. From 1973 to 1979 he was

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of the Corrymeela Community Centre for Reconciliation. In 2001, he was appointed

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of the

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. In 2005, he was one of two independent witnesses, the other being

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, who oversaw the decommissioning of arms, a vital part of the peace process. In 2007, he was awarded the World Methodist Peace Award. Good was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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"for relief work to the community"; in the

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he was promoted to

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(OBE).United Kingdom list:

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1937 births Living people Christian clergy from Derry (city) Irish Methodist ministers Presidents of the Methodist Church in Ireland Gandhi International Peace Award recipients Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub